DIE BLUTGRÄFIN

Showing: Sun, Oct 11th, 4:00 PM @ Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Wyatt Auditorium

Join us for a Q&A with actress Birgit Minichmayr after the screening!

This screening of Fatherland is part of the 2026 Houston Cinema Arts Festival. Tickets must be purchased through the festival website. Goethe-Institut guests can get $5 off tickets using the discount code “Goethe_partner”.

About the Film

From the legendary filmmaker and visual artist Ulrike Ottinger comes THE BLOOD COUNTESS, a sumptuous adventure tale and bizarro black comedy soaked in crimson and pulsing with ancient bloodlust. Decades after her mysterious disappearance, the Blood Countess reemerges in modern-day Vienna, where she reunites with her devoted maid, Hermine, to track down a dangerous book with the power to destroy all evil— including all vampires such as themselves. The duo embark on a scavenger hunt through the city’s magnificent historic sites, and conscript the countess’s melancholic nephew—a vegetarian vampire named Bubi—and his psychotherapist as they expand their search to Bohemia. Meanwhile, a pair of vampirologists and a police inspector remain hot on their trail. Morbidly funny and dazzlingly decadent, THE BLOOD COUNTESS is a reinvention of the vampire myth from one of world cinema’s most prodigious minds.

THE BLOOD COUNTESS
Year: 2026
Runtime: 119 minutes
Language: German, French with English subtitles
Country: Germany
Director: Ulrike Ottinger
Screenwriter: Elfriede Jelinek, Ulrike Ottinger
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Birgit Minichmayr, Thomas Schubert